desertification

A Python simulation of the Yacouba Loop — combining Zaï pits, biochar, and managed grazing to halt desertification in the Sahel.

This project aims to provide a low-level tool to assess the risk of desertification over time. It focuses on a case study on Zimbabwe, a country to be followed closely to avoid critical climatic developments.

Interactive Streamlit prototype for ecological restoration planning in Iran using real Sentinel-2 data (Google Earth Engine), NDVI/NDWI/NBR indices, and basic ML. Educational demo by a CS student.

Set of Jupyter notebooks and geospatial data developed by the MAPSPADES project to study desertification in the Algerian steppe using EO data.

Desert-vegetation boundary detection by projecting self-supervised satellite embeddings onto a vegetation-aligned axis. IGARSS 2026.